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McHenry County, North Dakota

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12historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

5,345pop. 2020

69cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 12 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1977. Most listings are in or near Denbigh, Towner, Velva.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 12 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

12 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Denbigh Station and Experimental Forest	Denbigh	District	2010
Elliott Bridge	Towner	Structure	1997
Granville State Bank	Granville	Building	1977
Hotel Berry	Velva	Building	1982
Liberty Baptist Church	Kief	Building	1987
Lower Souris National Wildlife Refuge Airplane Hangar	Upham	Structure	2011
McHenry County Courthouse	Towner	Building	1980
Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery	Denbigh	Building	1994
Old Saint John Nepomocene Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site	Orrin	Site	1989
Old Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site	Karlsruhe	Site	1989
Sevareid, Alfred and Clara, House	Velva	Building	1996
Westgaard Bridge	Voltaire	Structure	1997

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Mchenry was formed in 1873 (1873-01-04) from Buffalo.

McHENRY created by Dakota Territory in present North Dakota from BUFFALO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

McHenry County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,584	5,253	15,544	14,034	12,556	11,099	7,858	5,987	5,345

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

69 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 69 of 69 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Anamoose Baptist Cemetery	47.87612	-100.22625
Balfour Cemetery	47.94655	-100.54163
Bantry Union Cemetery	48.49359	-100.60257
Bergen Cemetery	47.99916	-100.70875
Berwick Cemetery	48.3486	-100.25846
Bethel Cemetery	48.43078	-101.01721
Bethel Lutheran Cemetery	48.06549	-100.72299
Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery	48.57591	-100.92828
Bloomfield Lutheran Cemetery	48.58972	-100.7254
Deering Lutheran Cemetery	48.38632	-101.03319
Drake Cemetery	47.92794	-100.36672
First Congregational Cemetery	47.87613	-100.22705
Fredericks Cemetery	48.55324	-100.78597
German Lutheran Cemetery	48.04386	-100.73823
Granville Cemetery	48.26973	-100.83124
Hjerdahl Lutheran Cemetery	48.02377	-100.82112
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery	48.05767	-100.95236
Immanuel Cemetery	48.52302	-100.34286
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery	48.05044	-100.39059
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery	48.60775	-100.44991
Kief Cemetery	47.85861	-100.54263
Kief Cemetery	47.8546	-100.50931
Little Deep Cemetery	48.51695	-100.87236
Melankton Cemetery	48.60305	-100.62596
Mouse River Cemetery	48.39999	-100.47179
North Prairie Lutheran Cemetery	48.1605	-100.88636
Norway Lutheran Cemetery	48.18121	-100.61468
Norwegian Cemetery	48.01472	-100.62903
Norwich Lutheran Cemetery	48.26101	-100.99517
Old Swedish Norwegan Cemetery	48.00751	-100.66156
Peace Reformed Cemetery	48.58889	-100.74499
Pioneer Cemetery	48.32656	-100.29274
Prairie Winds Cemetery	48.37812	-100.62536
Rising Lutheran Cemetery	48.3274	-100.95306
Rose Hill Cemetery	48.25485	-100.97324
Rural Cemetery	48.58944	-100.75555
Saint Cecilias Catholic Cemetery	48.3402	-100.38746
Saint Francis Xavior Cemetery	47.89055	-100.24012
Saint John Cemetery	48.12416	-100.73346
Saint John Lutheran Cemetery	47.85399	-100.80104
Saint John of Blumenfeld South Cemetery	48.12478	-100.34794
Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery	48.00644	-100.32776
Saint Johns of Blumenfeld Cemetery	48.15321	-100.3001
Saint Margaret Mary Catholic Cemetery	47.92888	-100.36678
Saint Martin Lutheran Cemetery	47.86226	-100.24173
Saint Martins Cemetery	47.94888	-100.26943
Saint Olaf Lutheran Cemetery	48.4872	-100.99405
Saint Paul Cemetery	48.55815	-100.88437
Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery	48.09417	-100.61152
Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery	48.12337	-100.56689
Saline Cemetery	48.44361	-100.89597
Sandhill Congregational Cemetery	48.52301	-100.34287
Sons of Herman Cemetery	47.94842	-100.28069
South Prairie Cemetery	47.92359	-100.86415
Spring Coulee Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery	48.53198	-100.9725
Stenkjaer Lutheran Cemetery	48.16	-100.84292
Stenso Cemetery	48.02159	-100.57467
Sunrise (EUB) Cemetery	47.87613	-100.22542
Thompson Cemetery	48.32722	-100.71402
Trinity Cemetery	48.17639	-100.73513
Trinity Lutheran Cemetery	47.92744	-100.36581
Trinity Lutheran Norfolk Cemetery	47.9635	-100.319
Union Cemetery	48.00666	-100.38707
United Methodist Cemetery	47.96506	-100.45658
Velva Cemetery	48.04956	-100.9238
Verendrye Cemetery	48.1243	-100.7456
Walley Cemetery	48.10593	-100.85059
West Melankton Cemetery	48.58889	-100.74341
Westgaard Cemetery	48.106	-100.80372

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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